The Federal Government is the largest buyer of everything in the world and there should not be one instance that we do not get the best price and the best value for everything that we do.

I would just tell you, when we look at sequester, the gentleman sitting before us today could save us a third of that every year if GSA was highly effective.

Eight years ago next month, Tom Carper and I had a hearing on GSA and I would tell you nothing has essentially happened in 8 years.

Will you ensure, wherever possible, that members of the FCC will show up at these hearings?

We would say it's out of whack.

If we're required to put the voice on, then a corporate--'corporation,' that's now defined as a person by the Supreme Court, I hope that I'd see their voice--that they'd find their voice and put it on an ad.

I can't think of an industry today that has more potential for growth than any other industry in America today: technology.

I think it is a very good act, because it is a good start.

Chairman Baucus, Ranking Member Hatch, distinguished members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me today.

Frankly, the Affordable Care Act was an attempt to come up with, in my view, a uniquely American solution.

We cannot live with that, so we have to do some dramatic things.

I think Senator Schumer is correct when he said market forces have a hard time in this area.

I think it is a very good instrument, because it takes away from lobbyists.

I believe the greatest potential for obtaining lower prices comes from approaches where purchasers and health plans, rather than report prices to enrollees, analyze the complex data on costs and quality and provide simple incentives for…

We did not have any health care system in this country until that act was passed, and even now we really do not.

Everybody screamed and yelled that anything other than a public option was traitorous to the American people.

They had to pay 80 or 85 percent on health care that made people better.

I'm hoping that--I think that's the way to approach it. I'm hoping that's the way you'll approach your job, that you will not base future decisions on the fact that you took a different position in your private life.